EDITH SITWELL. (1887 - 1964). EDITH SITWELL'S PERSONAL ADDRESS BOOK. An Alwych ruled, indexed address book, all-weather black covers, 8vo. (230 x 170mm), 143pp., approx. 388 manuscript entries by Edith Sitwell and others. Edith's personal address book reads like a 'Who's Who' from the world of music, theatre, publishing, film, ballet, and politics, her entries in blue and red ink include The Queen Mother Castle of May, Caithness, Allanah Statlender, Alberto (de Lacerda), Ava Waverley (Viscountess), Eamonn Andrews, Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Elizabeth Arden, Armando Dumas Child, M.D., OBE., Chelsea dressmaker, Madame Nina Astier, The Home Secretary, Rt. Honourable Henry Brooke, Stephen Spender, Robert Helpmann, George Cukor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Willie Walton, Cecil Day - Lewis, and Gore Vida to name a few. Aristocracy, celebrities, family members, International publishers and press contacts are mixed amongst Edith's practical and useful addresses, with little reminders to herself jotted in such as 'write to Lucia Davidova', 'Patches, black velvet beauty spots write to Fashion Daily Express', 'Poems for 9th October 1962'; bookcase suppliers and builders follow Cecil Beaton, Jean Cocteau, Noel Coward, Coutts Bank and 'Coroner, (murdered tramp), Southwark', with the New York Times and New Scotland Yard preceding the Noise Abatement Society; Edith's family related entries include 'Reresby & Penelope', 'The Palsied Osbert Time Magazine', 'Montegufoni wine', 'Sachie's suggestions for wine', and 'Osbert, from 25 March, 5 York House, Church St, W8'; Edith Sitwell's many personal and amusing comments are written in larger text within the addresses (not always in alphabetical index order), and include people she has been impressed by, 'Ian, charming American undergraduate to whom I must write', 'Well meaning American pest', 'BBC, young man (intelligent, wants to interview me)', 'little boy who wrote to me, I must send him Facade', plus many underlined entries with exclamation marks noting people who had annoyed her, 'Psychopath who insulted me after television', 'That Blasted Priest!',' The American who wants to bring his wife to tea',' Insolent women with the shrieking children!', ' Impertinent Catholic ass', 'Cat Torturers names withheld by the horrible woman magistrate', 'American woman who has copied my ring'; a loosely inserted Change of Address postcard from John Lehmann, inscribed, 'This is an update! - J'; tissue wrapping with NPG. label. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. d94/4.73. Condition Report some foxing and marks to the NPG. tissue paper wrapping and label, the address book's black covers with a few scuffs but clean, the alphabetical index curling a little at edges, some coffee staining to pastedowns and to the tops of some pages, o/w. clean internally, the text easy to read.